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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1919
Page
2
Global dispatches report crop records in Roumania, Germany selling 20 ton wheat consignments at 20 000 marks per carload, and a German army amassing 40 000 troops with 800 planes in Lithuania to aid Solchak against Russia.
The 60 dollar bonus for discharged soldiers is 98 percent complete with 1,574,000 paid. Senate actions include favorable report on the American Legion incorporation bill. President Wilson delays treaty drafts to the Senate and plans a 80 city tour for the peace effort. A bill to confer permanent general rank on Gen John J Pershing passes House.
A batch of short items lists Mrs. Michael Cudahy widow of Chicago packing pioneer at 77, several high profile arrivals and travels including Herbert Hoover and the Prince of Wales, Carnegie will values, and South Africa leaders. Also noted are labor and immigration debates, train wreck praise for nurse Anna Whelpley, a wrestling referee Carl Larson killed in an accident, Pershing sailing home, priests killed in Minnesota crash, crop forecasts for Kansas, and price drops at Chicago markets.
South Rock Island township annexation and a $75 000 sewer bond were carried at a special election. A northbound interurban struck Joseph McKinney near Auburn, killing him. Union activity and local promotions wrap the week, including church postings, bank reorganizations, and wartime veterans’ honors.
Senate committee report sketches a sweeping bill to return railroads to private control while creating a wage and welfare fund, employee representation on boards, and a transportation board with five members. It enforces penalties for strikes and outlines rate districts and groups for rate making.
Two American aviator officers on border duty were fired upon by Mexicans near Laredo Texas as they patrolled the Rio Grande. Captain Louis B McNabb was wounded in the head but the injury was not serious and he was brought to Fort McIntosh Post Hospital for treatment.
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